AKRON, Ohio -- A federal jury, after finding Jimmy Dimora guilty of racketeering and 32 of 33 other counts against the former Cuyahoga County commissioner, also found Michael Gabor Jr.guilty of racketeering and six other criminal charges.

Gabor, of Parma, was a former office assistant for county auditor Frank Russo and had been indicted three times in 2010 and 2011 and charged with schemes related to the county corruption probe.

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Background on the trial

He was found not guilty on only one of the seven charges he faced -- Count 33.

That count related to an allegation of bribery, in which prosecutors said Gabor gave $6,000 to Russo for giving a full-time job to a woman named Lilian Trovato.

In general, prosecutors said Gabor acted as a go-between of sorts for both Russo and Dimora.

He was charged with eight counts in this trial, five along with Dimora and three on his own.

The charges against Gabor Jr. are found in the same 37-count, 148-page federal indictment (see full text in document viewer below) in which Dimora was charged and known as the Third Superseding Indictment because it replaced two earlier filings.

According to charges against former Cuyahoga County auditor Frank Russo and testimony in the Dimora trial, Gabor had worked as little as 10 hours per week but spent much of his time running errands, driving public officials around, at pool parties or gambling trips.

He is also described as a close confidant of and driver for Dimora, who was involved in several business deals with him, including a failed attempt to get a job with a green building company linked to former construction executive Steven Pumper.

He was also charged with Dimora on corruption-related allegations that included Gabor paying $10,000 in an attempt to fix his divorce case.

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